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Stranding season is one of the busiest times of the year for the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre. Every year, hatchling and adult turtles strand on beaches along the Wester...

We are delighted to announce that the Two Oceans Aquarium has recently joined the Mission Blue family as co-champions of the Falso Bay Hope Spot.

Recently, our Two Oceans Aquarium team was involved in a huge sunfish rescue in the Transnet Robinson Dry Dock. To many, the sunfish is an almost alien-looking animal – with a weirdly shaped body that...

With many environmental issues dominating the media, particularly climate change, biodiversity loss is an often overlooked, yet just as significant, threat. Reverse the Red is a pioneering global move...

It has been a month since we have shared updates on our travelling turtles; Nobomvu, Bheni, Turbo and Pan! We're itching to know how our ocean adventurers spent their first month of 2024! Let's hear m...

On the morning of 30 January 2024, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation was called to rescue an enormous ocean sunfish in the nearby drydock.

As an African first, fourteen juvenile loggerhead turtles were tagged and released back into the ocean on 20 January 2024 as part of an international research project. While releases of rehabilitated ...

South Africans worldwide are sure to remember the feeling when our national rugby team, the Springboks, won the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2023. Well, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turt...

The Two Oceans Aquarium community kicked off the past weekend with the first Trash Bash beach cleanup of 2024!

Nobomvu, the loggerhead turtle, was released into the ocean after two years of rehabilitation with the Turtle Conservation Centre! Now, our Red Lady has sent in her first satellite tracking update! Le...

Many of our turtle community members may not know that our Turtle Conservation Centre works closely with a doctor not of turtles but of humans… Dr Peter Berndt, a Radiologist at Winelands Radiology! P...

On 22 December 2023, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre released Nobomvu, a loggerhead turtle, off the Cape Point coast into the warm Agulhas Current. Nobomvu was fitted w...